Ireland

Birth of Allan Ramsay, painter and son of Allan Ramsay the poet.

Charles Lucas, physician, MP and political radical, is born in Ballingaddy, Ennis, Co. Clare

Jonathan Swift becomes Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin

William Molyneux, the fourteen-year old son of Sir Thomas Molyneux, is killed

William Molyneux, the fourteen-year-old son of Sir Thomas Molyneux, is tragically killed when a leaden image falls on him in a garden near Dublin. The incident is recorded as an unusual and sorrowful event in the life of the prominent Molyneux family in early 18th-century Ireland.

John Stuart, Earl of Bute, Britains first Scottish Prime Minister, born.

Henry Pyne, MP for Dungarvan, aged about 24 and the father of three children, is killed in a duel

Henry Pyne (before May 1688 – 28 February 1713) was a politician in Ireland.

Nicola Hamilton, widow of Tristram Beresford MP, dies on her 47th birthday

The Linen Board meets for the first time

John Holwell, surgeon and survivor of Black Hole of Calcutta is born in Dublin

Philosopher David Hume born.